About Aten

Founded in 2000, Aten Design Group is a web strategy, design, and development company serving a broad range of clients making a positive impact on societies around the world. We work on complex communications and data projects for organizations like Stanford University, Human Rights Watch, Colorado Public Radio and many others. We are dedicated to creating meaningful user experiences, rooted in powerful open-source solutions, especially Drupal.

About You

You love the web, content, and understanding people. You think critically about communication and are passionate about telling stories. You are a strong communicator who excels at collaboration with both Aten team members and clients. You are very organized and can balance priorities. You believe the user comes first and have established audiences and personas as a way to understand users. You have experience architecting content using sitemaps, wireframes and functional prototypes. You have used testing tools to evaluate and ensure your work is meeting user needs.

About the Position

You will be working with some of the most impactful cause-driven organizations to help them use technology and design to achieve their mission and create meaningful connections with their users. You will work with clients to establish clear goals, understand user needs, and evaluate their content. Using this knowledge, you will be responsible for defining the vision for the product and structuring content in a way that works toward those goals and user needs. You will test and evaluate our work to ensure its success. You will collaborate with designers and developers, communicating key information to other team members.

Well qualified candidates will have experience or equivalent education in the following:

• At least 3 years of experience in UX design, information architecture, and content strategy
• Making high-level recommendations to clients regarding their digital strategy
• Analyzing and visualizing relationships between information / data in order to structure content effectively
• Conducting user research using industry tools and techniques
• Designing an information structure that is centered around user needs, aligned with business goals, and is technically feasible
• Analyzing, organizing and prioritizing work while meeting multiple deadlines
• Collaborating with team members and clients to maintain effective relationships
• Working with people from different disciplines and backgrounds who have varying degrees of technical knowledge
• Ensuring the product delivers on the desired outcome by managing the product backlog – working closely with the client to write and prioritize user stories and features
• Management of digital content in modern content management systems, like Drupal and WordPress
• Evaluating the effectiveness of existing systems by analyzing user feedback, research findings and leading practices 
• Conduct quality assurance (QA) testing to ensure the implementation is inline with the proposed architecture and design

You will work closely with our project management, design and engineering teams throughout the full lifecycle of the project. Your participation in client presentations will include articulating findings and selling your creative ideas based on your research. 

Compensation and Benefits

We think we have one of the best workplaces on the planet. Here are a few reasons why:

• Competitive salaries, commensurate with experience
• Flexible, generous vacation policy
• SIMPLE IRA with company match
• Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Paid conference attendance — both in the US and abroad
• Ping pong table
• Stocked kitchen and catered Friday lunches
• Gym access
• Open, collaborative office in a remodeled industrial space near downtown
• Biyearly company summits 

Aten Design Group is an equal opportunity employer; we consider all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.